Ultraman Geed has multi-parters growing out of every orifice these days, doesn’t it? With few exceptions, this series has kicked into high gear since we struck the halfway point, and I can’t tell you how happy I am to be in this sweet spot. This is where things get interesting. Where we’re done setting up […]
Ichi City has been set upon by an army of colossal monsters of devastating power. Crawling out of every nook and cranny, from the many different sci-fi, fantasy, and action franchises of Japan, both live-action and animated, comes a fierce wave of kaiju hoping to make dinner out of the denizens of this Japanese metropolis. […]
Earth of the future has become a smoldering den of kaiju in Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, the new animated feature from Polygon Pictures and creature-feature titan Toho. In this 3D animated tale, a group of space travelers whose family had once abandoned the ravaged Earth now return to the place humanity once called home, […]
The miraculous rebirth of the Pacific Rim franchise, after a less-than-stellar box office for Guillermo Del Toro’s original monster mash left fans in a period of doubt, now revives the speculation about what might happen if the city-stomping Kaiju and their mechanized Jaeger nemeses would ever meet up with the denizens of Legendary Pictures’ new […]
Guillermo Del Toro’s giant monster mash Pacific Rim is the little movie franchise that could, still trucking after unfavorable returns in the domestic box office a few years ago. But stronger international support gives the super-robot actioner a new lease on life with director Steven S. DeKnight’s Pacific Rim: Uprising. Let’s check out the trailer […]
The battle to save a war-torn Earth from a wave of rampaging monsters continues in Pacific Rim: Uprising, and we have three new posters to prove it. John Boyega makes his debut as the new lead hero, piloting the giant Jaeger robot known as Gipsy Avenger. He’ll need all the swag he can muster if […]
Don’t sleep on monster movies in 2017. After Godzilla kicked us off a few years ago, with a gentle push from Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Gareth Edwards (Star Wars: Rogue One), a number of new kaiju flicks have begun to rise from the ashes of former obscurity, breathing new life (and atomic breath) into […]
In this week’s episode of SciFi JAPAN TV, the team visits the “Kaiju Sakaba” (literally “Monster Bar”) with Monster Attack Team magazine’s Ed Holland. Supervised by Tsuburaya Productions, this temporary izakaya in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture is themed around the kaiju characters from the Ultraman series.